Where does “akanga” come from?

akanga (Old Tupi) comes from Old Tupi -a, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ — instrumentalizer suffix.

akanga (Old Tupi): head part of the body

Definitions

  1. head part of the body

Ancestry of “akanga”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Tupi-aforms nouns from a word's stem
2Proto-Tupi-Guarani*-aβinstrumentalizer suffix

Words derived from “akanga”

Every word from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ →Every word from Old Tupi -a →